Orson Scott Card: Obama and the Press

rhinotimes.com ^ | January 29, 2009 | Orson Scott Card

[PapaBear3625]

In the press game, you are either a source or a target. Reporters with nothing to write about will hunt up people who will leak something, anything, to give them an exclusive.

Four years of writing about Senate Republicans trying to obstruct Fearless Leader won't cut it. They can't afford to have readers/viewers get bored.

[FastCoyote]

[If the drive bys ever turn on him he is toast. Not that they ever will!]

They will turn on him, it is the nature of the scorpion. When Obamessiah turns out to be the bumbling Oz behind the curtin, they will have to turn on him or be sucked into the whirlpool. That’s not saying it won’t take a while, it will be like suddenly finding out the tooth fairy doesn’t exist.

[ontap]

It will be one of those “I”M shocked,SHOCKED to discover there is gambling going on in this establishment”moments!!

[Tolik]

Hanson calls Obama’s behavior Hubris.

If Bush had 1/10 of the good will and forgiveness showered on Obama, we’d had no anti-war movement; Iraq would’ve been a success long time ago because the enemies would not see us divided and would not hope for change. etc., etc.

I think sometimes that nobody in the last decades did more damage to America than Al Gore that incited the Dems to illegitimize Bush every step in his Presidency, which gave more reasons to our enemies to believe that we are the “weak horse” and encouraged them to fight and the fence-sitters to believe them.

And now he is up to more mischief with the Global warming hysteria that can rob us blind after the stimulus robbery. And just to think that at one point I thought him more reasonable than Clinton!

[Tolik]

He wrote a lot of good stuff after 9/11. Just follow the links at the ping post.

[thefactor]

ender's game is the best book.

ever.

[CharacterCounts]

Not that they ever will!

They will.

They may be the last ones in the country to do so, but they will.

[bigheadfred]

They’ve invested too much in him to turn on him this soon. It will eventually come, but not until late in his term.

Which, hopefully, will be this summer to early fall. :-)

[Mr Inviso]

“ender’s game is the best book.
ever.
“

It’s good. Some of the rest of that series gets lost, but the latest one (Ender In Exile) isn’t bad. There are 8 of them in all, IIRC.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. Orson Scott Card is correct: Obama despises the media even though they worship him and parrot what he wants them to say.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for the ping. An article by O.S. Card is always a great read.